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Emancipation and science: Ernest Mandel 25 years later

19 July 2020

By: Alex de Jong

This year marks 25 years since Ernest Mandel died. His contributions to Marxist theory remain relevant to 'understanding the world in order to change it'.

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1978: Ernest Mandel - Rosa Luxemburg and political economy

12 July 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

In this article, originally published as the preface to Luxemburg's 'Introduction à l’economie politique', Mandel surveys Rosa Luxemburg's contributions to political economy.

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1987: Ernest Mandel - The rise of fascism and the united front

8 July 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

(1930, uniformed members of the Reichsbanner, the defense organisation associated with the German SPD)

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1978: Ernest Mandel - Spinoza, thinker of bourgeois freedom

29 June 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

How democratic was the political thought of Spinoza? Mandel argues that to understand the seeming contradictions in Spinoza, we must place him in the historical context of early capitalism and an emerging bourgeoisie.

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1980: Ernest Mandel on the class nature of the capitalist state

23 June 2020

Originally titled 'Methodological problems in defining the class nature of the bourgeois state', this article is simultaneously an example Mandel's 'historical-genetic' analysis of social phenomena and the outline of an analysis of the capitalist state.

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1973: Ernest Mandel on Marxism and ecology, 'The dialectic of growth'

16 June 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

Ernst Mandel meeting Hugo Blanco (on the right)

An early example of applying Marxist critique to ecological issues, in reply to the famous 'Limits to Growth' report.

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1972: Ernest Mandel on 'The Driving Forces of Imperialism'

10 June 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

In this paper Mandel argues that the theory of imperialism as developed by Hilferding and Lenin can be applied to explain the shift from direct colonialism to neo-colonialism and the changing composition of the bourgeoisie in dominated countries.

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1968: Debat Ernest Mandel & Joop den Uyl

9 June 2020

In 1968 nam de linkse studentenorganisatie Politeia het plan op om, in hun woorden, ''twee belangrijke vertegenwoordigers van respectievelijk de sociaal-democratie en het Marxisme in een openbaar debat de degens te laten kruisen'''. Deze vertegenwoordigers waren respectievelijk de toekomstige premier Joop den Uyl, en Ernest Mandel. Het was niet de eerste keer dat de twee in debat gingen; negen jaar eerder organiseerde dezelfde studentenvereniging een discussie tussen Mandel en Den Uyl over ''De betekenis van het marxisme voor de socialistische theorie''.

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1971: Ernest Mandel on 'The dialectic of nation and class struggle'

18 May 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

The Marxist view on the question maintains that the nation is the product of the struggle of a specific class, namely the modern bourgeoisie, the first class in history to give birth to a nation.

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